@Riot: Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole

Loomybinn·4/8/2016, 12:08:43 PM·5 votes·523 views

In the last few months riot has been playing a massive game of whack-a-mole in the top lane with tanks. Tanks, particularly in the top lane, are too strong as a class because of systemic problems in the game. And yet Riot's response is to pick out the top two or three tanks and nerf them. Because of that, when the top tanks get nerfed it just leads to the next best set of tanks becoming op and the cycle continues again. I just wish Riot would stop playing whack-a-mole and fix the systemic issues that are leading to tank dominance. This is coming from a tank top player. Come on Rito.

4 Comments

Demon King Maou4/8/2016, 12:13:13 PM1 votes

The day riot nerfs all the following champions is the day pigs can fly Sion Shen Irelia Ekko DrMundo Diana Darius Gragas Garen JarvanIV Jax and many more not listing all these guys -_- (Note not all the above need a nerf just giving examples)

MLDzXnRRR4/8/2016, 12:41:38 PM1 votes

Tanks are too strong, cuz noone buys armor pen. I'm tired of losing games, cuz my retarded ADC has shit like item 3156 item 3147 item 3508 and deals no dmg to the enemy top, jungler and support.

LilxPaprika4/8/2016, 12:50:38 PM1 votes

I like that they are introducing new things. but it shouldn't effect balance which it is. I understand maybe having it for one or 2 patches be a bit off. but this is consistent and often for prolongue periods.

I think a good example of a champion being addressed in good time is XinZhao . They wanted to give him crit. they did so but he was too strong. so they removed some ap scaling. The issue is when they give things without tradeoffs on otherwise mostly well balanced champions to begin with. if they were as punctual as they were with Xin I wouldn't have any objections.

They are mostly playing whack a mole with balance, by creating inflation in some areas.

Very Hard Engage4/8/2016, 3:14:41 PM1 votes

its not tank dominance, its AD dominance, you pick a full ham AD build, we can not contend with that, so we build full armor to directly counter and take away the only strength you have.

you want to see less tanks?

pick up Anivia Ziggs Karthus etc in the mid lane again.

put a ranged support bot like karma/sona/janna instead of braum/alistar/thresh.

and put your tank back in the jungle Nautilus JarvanIV Maokai Nunu

so we can see repeated Riven vs Ryze vs Irelia top lane all the time.

there is nothing we can do if your team repeatedly picks Graves Quinn top, Corki mid, Caitlyn Jhin Lucian bot every single game.....

its the same reason rammus/maplhite/mundo rose in win rate after the ADC meta change. its because they are the direct counters to ADCs, they didn't get any direct changes, or buffs, you just repeatedly picked AD over and over and over again and expected people not to pick gross counters to such a team.

when all of those tanks are easily kited and if you knock them out of the fight they're just irrelevant.

you put 3 or 4 ADCs on a team, but 1 tank on the enemy team is going to give your whole team a nightmare.

lets take a look at the popularity list....

what a surprise, first is lucian, second is easyreel, third is vayne =/